New research has identified the mechanism by which air pollution damages the lungs’ self-cleaning system, leaving us ...

In COPD, these cilia cannot move well ... including ones for COPD. Gregg Duncan, a lung disease researcher at the University of Maryland, who was not involved in the study, says he is optimistic ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD for short ... and you’re able to breathe better. The cilia in your lungs become active again. As they recover, you might cough more at first.

It also damages cilia, so they can't clear mucus as well ... GOLD stands for Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease. That's a group that sets widely used guidelines for COPD ...

Humans experience this lung damage in the form of respiratory diseases, but if you could look ... After a few months, the cilia in your lungs start working efficiently again.

When a person inhales a pathogen or potentially harmful particle, cilia help to catapult these invaders out of the lungs and into ... particularly in diseases like asthma, where overproduction ...

Mechanical engineers have developed a system of artificial cilia capable of monitoring ... (CF), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases (COPD) and lung cancer. Xiaoguang Dong, assistant professor ...

Long-term health risks of tobacco consumption include coronary artery disease, stroke, cancer of the lungs and almost all ...

More information: Yusheng Wang et al, Sensory artificial cilia for in situ monitoring of airway physiological properties, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas ...